Bandwidth on demand reaches Asia

GLOBAL telecommunications service provider Pacnet has launched a beta offering in the Asia-Pacific region that allows businesses to order network capacity on the fly and pay for only what they use.

Called Pacnet Enabled Network (PEN), it aims to bring the benefits of public cloud computing - such as agility, flexibility and scalability - to the network. For instance, firms can now shorten bandwidth provisioning time to minutes, compared to 15-20 days required by conventional network approaches.

Users can also order network capacity by the hour instead of being locked into a contract for a particular quality of connection for a year.